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Toby Keith, the boisterous, unapologetically patriotic nation star who died final week at 62, has a posthumous No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart, as a 16-year-old hits assortment narrowly edged out Morgan Wallen’s newest — and simply topped releases by the rapper 21 Savage and the Grammy winners Taylor Swift and SZA — to achieve […] More

From the very starting of the improv theater Second City, its identify made clear that it wasn’t a New York establishment and didn’t aspire to be. But after 65 years, the Chicago-based establishment that has strongly influenced trendy comedy is opening an outpost on Monday in Brooklyn, in what’s the First City. It’s a seemingly […] More

At the time, Malone was finding out sustainable agriculture and experimenting with barter methods — “I believed I used to be going to change into a farmer” — however an opportunity assembly scuttled these plans. Visiting New York City to safe a pretend ID to be able to catch her bandmate’s solo efficiency at an […] More

After days of hypothesis and on-line sleuthing by followers — simply one other week, in different phrases — Beyoncé used her look in a Super Bowl industrial on Sunday to announce that she would quickly be releasing new music. In a Verizon advert that ran shortly after halftime, Beyoncé joked with the comic Tony Hale […] More

A couple of minutes into Usher’s dynamic and sly Super Bowl LVIII halftime present efficiency Sunday evening at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas got here a second of unusual, nearly startling calm. Alicia Keys had simply appeared, in a sequined purple jumpsuit and matching encrusted robe, and reasonably gratuitously flubbed the opening observe of her […] More

Francesca Sloane loves these scenes in spy motion pictures when a person and a girl on the run evade their pursuers with an impromptu kiss. With little warning, the person attracts the girl near him, crops one on her lips and — simply for so long as it takes for the dangerous guys to lose […] More

With community, cable and streaming, the trendy tv panorama is an enormous one. Here are among the reveals, specials and flicks coming to TV this week, Feb. 12-18. Details and instances are topic to alter. Monday NCIS 9 p.m. on CBS. This nautical-flavored police procedural is again for its twenty first season. Since its premier […] More

William Albert “Billy Jack” Haynes Jr., who within the Nineteen Eighties competed within the World Wrestling Federation, was arrested within the killing of his spouse at a house in Portland, Ore., on Thursday after a standoff with police. The authorities publicly recognized Mr. Haynes, 70, on Saturday, days after the police stated he shot and […] More

When an commercial for Cetaphil lotion was launched on-line days earlier than the Super Bowl, it drew rave critiques for a story that evoked a well-recognized story for folks, soccer followers and followers of Taylor Swift. In the business, a father unsuccessfully tries to curiosity his teenage daughter, who’s distracted by one thing on her […] More

In the spirit of “Who really watches the sport?,” right here is our rating of all of the Super Bowl commercials we now have been capable of observe down up to now, from greatest to worst. Ground guidelines: Only advertisements being proven on the nationwide CBS broadcast throughout the recreation are eligible. Certain spots, together […] More

If you begin on the center C of a piano and strike each key in your method as much as the subsequent C on the keyboard, you’ll play every of the 12 notes that make up an octave. Those 12 semitones are the inspiration of most Western music. But what in the event that they […] More

Brian McConnachie, who introduced absurdist humor to 3 comedy touchstones of the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s — National Lampoon journal and the NBC tv collection “Saturday Night Live” and “SCTV Network” — died in hospice care on Jan. 5 in Venice, Fla. He was 81. The trigger was problems of Parkinson’s illness, his spouse, Ann […] More